Thursday, August 27th, 2026 - One month left, 262 menus, and a site that finds the ones actually worth your table.đđđ
Stuff You Wonât Want To Miss This Week:
â TOP PICK THIS WEEK: One month in and one month to go for Dine Out Lauderdale. It is an overwhelming list of choices, so local Matt Hall created DineDecoded as a website that helps you navigate 262 menus across 179 restaurants. Worth exploring for the savoring and the saving. ~ Source: Axios Fort Lauderdale.
TODAY | Introduction to Clay: Hand Building. Bailey Contemporary Arts, Pompano. A hands-on pottery class for anyone who has never touched a wheel, no experience needed.
Friday Night - 6pm | Riverwalk Chocolate & Whiskey Tasting. Fort Lauderdale Womanâs Club, downtown. A guided pairing, the kind of date-night actually worth the ticket price.
Friday Night - 5-8pm | Taste of Trinidad & Tobago. Free entry, Inverrary Community Center, Lauderhill. Real Caribbean food and culture, not a festival-lite version of it.
Friday Night - 6:30pm | Zumba In The Park By Domingo. Need to move your body? Weekly fun and refreshing dance fitness class designed specifically for older adults and anyone looking for a lower-impact workout.
Also Friday Night - 8:30-10pm | Fear Circus Unleashed. Adults-only horror spectacular, blending immersive theater, circus arts, and spine-chilling entertainment.
Saturday Morning - 12-5pm | Indie Craft Bazaar. War Memorial Auditorium fills with local makers, the all-ages pick that isnât a kidsâ event dressed up as one.
Saturday Night - 6-10pm | Trinidad & Tobago Independence Celebration. Vizcaya Park, Miramar. Outdoor, community, free, the kind of night you stumble into and stay for hours.
Saturday Night - 6-9pm | Art Fest at Thrive Art District. Fort Lauderdale. Working artists, open studios, an âI didnât know that existedâ find that never makes a tourist map.
Sunday - 12-5pm | Free Fort Lauderdale Neighbor Day. NSU Art Museum. Free admission for residents, last Sunday of every month, the dated hook that makes an art museum worth an actual Sunday.
SAVE THESE DATES:
Next week at Savor Cinema: Award-wining French movie Colours of Time will be running from the 3rd to the 6th. Catch it while you can.
Saturday, Sep 5 ¡ 8pm | Lil Baby & Kodak Black, âFall Fest 2026â at Amerant Bank Arena, Sunrise. Ticketed, limited capacity.
Sunday, Sep 6 ¡ 12-5pm | Doc Renoâs 9th Bacon Beer & BBQ Festival, Margate Sports Complex. Quirky, local, worth the drive to Margate.
Saturday, Sep 5, time TBD | Starlight Jam Sessions, Palm Aire Gazebo, Pompano. Free outdoor community music night.
Sweetwaters is coming to Huizenga Park this fall from the family behind Miami's Rusty Pelican. Reply with the one Fort Lauderdale restaurant, open or closed, you wish someone would bring back or reinvent.
Featured Fort Lauderdale
Get Lost in the Clouds at Superblue Miami
This one comes from Christine, a Hey! Lauderdale reader and Acton parent who came back raved about their visit. This is exactly the kind of find we want more of.
Superblue Miami is 50,000 square feet of art you donât just look at, you walk into it. One room is a mirrored maze of sculpture. Another is a digital world where seasonal flowers bloom and waterfalls pour around you. Three thousand lights pulse to human heartbeats. And the showstopper is teamLabâs Massless Clouds: they hand you a poncho at the door, because youâre going to wade through the cloud, not admire it from a rope line.
The practical stuff: itâs in Allapattah (1101 NW 23rd Street, Miami) - an easy 40-ish minute run down I-95 from Fort Lauderdale. Plan 90 minutes to two hours. All ages welcome, and it genuinely works for the whole crew: adults are $32, Florida residents $29, ages 3â12 are $17, and under 3 are free. Open seven days, later on Friday and Saturday nights. Tickets at superblue.com.
Been somewhere lately your family canât stop talking about? Hit reply â the best finds in this newsletter come from readers like Christine.
So... You Think You Know South Florida
You probably already know⌠the New River winds through downtown. Many of us drive over it several times a day (or wait in traffic while the bridge goes up).
What you might not know is⌠the river path traditionally moved on its own.
According to Seminole legend, it earned that name after an evening of howling wind, strange noises, and shaking ground, the people woke to find a deep river where none had been, and called it Himmarshee: ânew water.â The recorded explanation? An earthquake collapsing the roof of an underground river.
Hereâs the twist the postcards leave out: âNew Riverâ shows up on maps as early as the 1600s â more than a century before the Seminoles reached this coast â and one folk historian insists the Seminole name was actually Coontie-Hatchee, for the coontie plants on its banks. The overnight legend was first written down in 1940 by WPA writers, which makes it either a preserved oral tradition or very good marketing.
One part of the river really did move, though: its mouth. Before 1928, the barrier beach shifted on its own â the outlet wandering anywhere between Hillsborough and Dania â until Port Everglades was dredged and the channel fixed in place. The river stopped moving. The name stuck anyway. ~ Source
More Treats To Try
We donât let just anyone sponsor this newsletter. Hereâs who âmade the cutâ this week:
The Florida Renaissance Festival is once again hosting its Acting & Dance Workshops. You can attend as a Member or just $5 per workshop if you want to try it out. Classes from now until October. Use this page to register
The new school year is starting up. Lots of excitement for the first days of school. But if it is not feeling right for your family, you might want to look at something very different and totally worth it.
SAVE THE DATE. Founding Families Fall Festival. Stranahan House. September 25th. Email director@stranahanhouse.org for sponsorship opportunities.
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Quote Of The Week
âWhat goes too long unchanged destroys itself.â ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Le Guin was an American author known for speculative fiction, including the Earthsea fantasy series and science fiction set in the Hainish universe. Her work is known for challenging ideas about human relations and the natural and inevitable.
Flotsam & Jetsam
This one will cost you five minutes and is just a visual meditation. It is called ZoomQuilt and travels from a single image that zooms forever. Each layer dissolves into the next scene.
Hard to imagine and hard to stop watching. Judge for yourself.
Word Play Of The Week
âA Blessing in Disguiseâ
This idiom means that something that appears to be a problem or misfortune at first turns out to be beneficial or good in the end.
The phrase has been in use since at least the 18th century. It was first recorded in James Herveyâs âReflections on a Flower-Gardenâ in 1746, indicating that what seems unfortunate can often bring about good outcomes. ~ âSource
âUnder-The-Radarâ Openings Job Board
Lots of folks offering cool positions here locally. Maybe thereâs one for you or a friend?
Broward County Aviation Job Fair: Friday, August 28th. 300 vacancies at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
XB Architecture is looking for an Architectural Project Manager. High end residential construction projects.
September 9th - Hospitality and Tourism Job Fair with CareerSource Broward.
Animal Husbandry Specialist II (FT) at Museum of Discovery & Science (MODS) Listing
Video Wall Installation Technician, Tamarac Listing
Do you have a listing you would like to place here for next week? Hit reply and let us know.
Lastly⌠One Big Idea For Your Week
What is one thing you are wildly curious about learning? Whatâs stopping you?
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